Thursday, October 6, 2011

That's what happens when you're self taught!

When I got my stuff back from the fair, I received some great comments from the judge. For example: "Excellent job! Great selvedges! Nicely presented! Composition good! Color works well for design!" and other encouraging things like that. But I also got a lot of this, "Hemstitching on wrong side." And this, "Slant on hem should be on back."

Whoops!! I suddenly felt really embarrassed! All this time I thought that side looked better so it was the top side! How wrong, but I can't help to chuckle at my mistake! I was so embarrassed that I spent a few days thinking about if I should say something on here, but then I figured that maybe someone else has made this mistake, too. I wish I would have known, but I do know how to fix it for the future!

Here are some great tutorials:
http://www.weaving.cc/leasesticks/aug08tip.html
http://www.weavingtoday.com/media/g/how-to-instructions/tags/Hemstitching/default.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBKqG2Do2I

Just for fun...

Here's an inspiring and exciting file photo from 2007 when I dyed a bunch of wool with kool-aide! I think I want to try that again! It was so much fun!